SUMMARY

• Over 15 years of experience including, distinguished Information Technology Lead / Manager with extensive experience in distributed systems operations, migrating systems, systems and application implementation, and strategic enterprise architecture.
• Expertise in managing/lead infrastructure within Financial Services, Information Systems and Manufacturing environments. Proven ability to bridge technology and business goals to provide operational and cost productive solutions.
• Demonstrated success leading and mentoring cross - functional teams in multi-facility environments levels of productivity. While maintaining a hands-on approach with the Technology.
• Experienced interfacing with all key business units including C-Level Executives, Finance, Human Resources, Application Development, Production Operations, and Engineering Architecture.
• Migrate applications off Windows 2003, 2008 R2 servers to Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 2016. Wield performing Active Directory Domain assessment, planning and migration off accounts and services
• Deployed OS in a virtual and physical environment.
• Troubleshoot build issues and worked as technical expert or go to person for the AD DS, DNS, DHCP and other third-party applications for the engineering team.
• Tested and troubleshoot PowerShell scripts
• Configured and installed Physical, Virtual servers and used Cisco UCS
• Managed server services and service-accounts migration to newer OS (Virtual & Physical) and new domain
• Identified, documented, Standardize DNS configuration for the enterprise
• Worked with developers to troubleshoot web applications (.Net) and IIS server environments

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Windows NT - 2k12 & R2/ 2k16 Server
• MS Hyper-V, VMware 4.1,5.1, 5.5, 6
• Confidential Open Manager
• Windows AD Group Policy
• HP ProCurve Switches
• Microsoft SCCM
• Norton Antivirus
• Barracuda (Email Firewall)
• Exchange Server 2003/2000/5.5
• NAVMSE 2.5/3.0
• Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP/2000/NT/95/98
• DNS/WINS/DHCP/RAS
• MS SQL 2000/2005 Server
• Cisco Wireless Router
• Private Cloud
• Routers/Switches
• Public Cloud (Azure)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Migration Architect/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architect and Engineer the client’s datacenter migration of their Windows Servers systems and Applications. Upgrade Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 to Windows 2012 R2
• Interact with multiple technology infrastructure team ( Confidential & Clients), in various aspects of the migration
• Owner of technical migration and tracking of application workload
• Ensures creation and population of Prod/DR/UAT environments
• Actively responsible for planning and execution of cut-over events
• Interface with multiple groups ( Confidential & Client) to insure a successful cut-over
• Manage issues and delays until resolved

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Windows 2012 R2 and 2016 subject expert for the group
• Ran the day to day Active Directory (AD) request.
• Completed assessment, planning and documenting of domains, Accounts, DNS, DHCP configurations.
• Aided in the Windows 7 to 10 Planning, Testing and migration. Along with GPO upgrades for Windows 10, and assisted the SCCM team in deploying Windows 10 builds
• Planed and prioritizing projects needs, documenting application and system requirements for present and future installs and configurations.
• Deployed OS in a virtual and physical environment.
• Build and Troubleshooting issues in Active Directory (AD) FS, DS, DNS, DHCP, SCCM and other third party applications for the engineering team.
• Worked in conjunction with other globe groups across different business units to achieve and improve the business objective.
• Tested and made recommendations on newer technologies (Kemp routers, Quest Password Manager, and other Quest AD backup, and monitoring software).
• Worked with the Desktop Engineer and SCCM Engineer to on Patching systems and GPO for users.
• Used PowerShell for administrator tasks

Confidential

Lead Systems Administrator/Windows Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Scheduled and facilitated technical meeting to collaborate on implementation of new processes and OS builds and development of tools to be used in the deployment of the OS.
• Planed and prioritizing customers’ needs, documenting application and system requirements for present and future installs and configurations.
• Deployed OS in a virtual and physical environment.
• Troubleshoot build issues and worked as technical expert or go to person for the Wintel team.
• Worked in conjunction with other globe groups across different business units to achieve and improve the business objective.
• Tested and made recommendations on newer technologies that I have learned.
• Trained team members on Windows 2012
• Was the Windows 2012 subject expert for the group
• Worked with Windows 2012 and 2012 R2 clustering
• Worked also with earlier versions of Windows (2003, 2008 and 2008 R2)
• Tested and troubleshoot PowerShell scripts
• Configured and installed Physical, Virtual servers and used Cisco UCS.
• As one of the Windows Subject expert I was call in to troubleshoot many server issues and different processes.

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Completed assessment, planning and documenting of domains, Accounts, DNS, DHCP configurations.
• Managed server services and service-accounts migration to newer OS (Virtual & Physical) and new domain
• Identified, documented, Standardize DNS configuration for the enterprise
• Identified, documented and planned DHCP migration
• Planned physical servers upgrade and migration off of legacy domains to virtual servers with newer OS on newer domain.
• Worked with their VMware 5.1 environment (VSphere 5, vCenter Server 5.1 and SolarWinds for monitoring)
• Built test VMs for clients and migrated physical servers to virtual.
• Troubleshoot issues with virtual servers build and migrations and PowerShell scripts.
• Worked with developers to troubleshoot web applications (.Net) and IIS server environments.
• Evaluated Windows 2012 R2 features (AD, Group Policy, Hyper-V, etc…)

Migration Wintel Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed a composite team of consisting of up to (10) contractors and Confidential consultants working onsite and remotely to execute, validate, and support the full spectrum of migration activities
• Completed the successful assessment, migration, operationalization, certification, user acceptance testing, and cutover of over 1200 mission critical application servers
• Performed project management functions while acting as Move Package Owner (MPO) to coordinate application and server requirements and schedule activities between the client an transformation team
• Served as the transformation technical lead to coordinate schedules, efforts, and manage issues with the managed services steady state team
• Operated as the project Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all documentation, troubleshooting, and management of the Novell/NetIQ PlateSpin, Double Take and VMWare Converter migration toolsets as well as providing technical consulting expertise and assistance to the managed services steady state team with VMware vCenter and VMware ESX/ESXi operations, management, and troubleshooting
• Participated in the development, pilot execution, and standardization of a customized client SharePoint and Web Application (.Net) migration process to meet a client specific requirement for their application
• Evaluated performances on a SQL Server Cluster 2008 platform for our client’s environments
• Evaluated Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2 features (AD, Group Policy, Hyper-V, etc…)
• Performed a VMware vSphere 5.1 full install. (Single Sign-On, Inventory Service, vCenter Server, Web Client and Update Manager Server)

Confidential

Sr. Platform Architect / Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Ensured the integrity and availability of existing systems according to business requirements, budgets and exceeded the SLAs requirements,
• Provided 3rd level support to business systems and network support group to users in response to identified difficulties